Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-07-07
,,ub has now $1,000 to back it.

a gentleman named fOSKetS proposes
to start large planning mill at Sioux
Falls if proper assistance is given.
The Winfred water supply is said to
be getting low and the matter OF sink
ing an artesian well is being agitated.
The new Congregational church at
Faulkton when completed Will be one
of the finest church editices in the ter
ritory.
Next month the Seventh cavalry is
to be transferred from Montana and
Dakot:. to the department of the Miss
issippi.
The Omaha road has put night
trains on their Sioux Falls line, and
people of that town are pleased with
the arrangement.
A man while plowing west of Faux
ton came onto the skeletons OF man
and two children. Close to them were
the bones of dog.
Prof. Carpenter, dean of the Rapid
City school of mines, has had the de-
gree of A. NJ. conferred upon him by
the Ohio university.
Great preparations are being made
at Nyoonsocket in anticipation OF the
soldiers and sailors reunion to take
place there in August.
Deadwood has an Italian who tried
working on the Panama canal awhile,
receiving $500 per day. 1t was so
sickly on the isthmus that he couldn't
remain there long.
C.N. Ainsworth Of the Watertown
Courier-News, late of Ogdensburg, N.
Y, Is said to be the champion heavy
weight editor of Dakota. tipping the
beam at 2S5 pounds.
The town of Little Muddy, on the
Missouri at the meeting of that stream
and the Minot extension of the Manito-
ba road, has been rechristened, and will
hereafter be called "Williston."
A genuine down east camp meeting
will be held at jamestown, commenc-
ing on the 7th. The grounds are fine
and it is expected to make it the great
est event of the kind ever held in
Dakota.
Andrew Boehmer, of Aberdeen, went
to the roof of his building, during re-
cent storm, to close the skylight. He
was blown from the roof to an adjoin-
ing building. and from there fell to the
ground, without serious injury.
The members OF the South Dakota
board of pharmacy met at Huron Tues
day morning to examine applicants for
certificates to practice pharmacy
-Four hundred applications were re-
ceived from candidates.
A Sioux Falls man named Jonesberg
went to Minneapolis in April, expect,
ing to be away but a few weeks, but
since that time nothing has been heard
from him and it is feared that he has
been the victim of foul play.
| A Fargo young lady is said to be
wearing out a great deal of shoe leath
er visiting the postoffice to meet her
"destiny" in the shape of a dark-eyed
young millionaire. She has been con.
sulting a Chicago clairvoyant.
The Huron railroad men have de
cleared war on the Ruronite and step
ped patronizing the paper. This is al
because the paper upheld the authori
ties in raiding the bawdy-houses ant
taking in a number Of the boys.
A surveying party from the northeas
has reached Woonsocket. They claim
to be in the employ of the Duluth
Watertown & Pacific railroad company
They came direct from Iroquois ant
passed on southwest toward the river
The Drake polishing works, of Siou,
Falls, have just completed three ele
giant jasper pedestals which are to b.
finished with gold bronze trimmings
They are for Tiffany & Co., of New
York, and are to be used in mounting
clocks.
w. N. White, Hand county farmer
believes in deep plowing. He has ;
thirty acre field of wheat sown OF
ground plowed to the depth of eigh
inches, and good Judges say the iiel'
will average thirty-five bushels of first
class wheat per acre.
A large band of Sioux Indians ar
said to be en- route for the Crow agenc,
for the purpose of making the Crows {
visit. For fear the visit might termi
nate in scalping bee between thes
ancient enemies the agents have re
Quested the government to have tn
troops intercept the visiting party ant
escort them back to their reservation
The prohibitionists of Beadle count
are vigorously prosecuting their work
Returns from nearly all the township
in the county indicate that the petition
to the county commissioners bears tn
names of fully one-half Of the voters il
the county-in some townships tn,
; name of every voter has been secures
for the petition.
King Solomon's Diamond Mines.
Julian Hawthorn, who ought to be
good judge. says of H. Rider Haggard'
story OF king Solomon's Mines,
"There is no story of adventura tha